What are the responsibilities and job description for the Searchlight Creative Advertising Intern, Fall 2024 position at The Walt Disney Company?
About The Role & Program
Searchlight Pictures is a filmmaker-oriented company that focuses on distinctive films helmed by world-class auteurs and exciting newcomers. Founded in 1994, the company’s titles have grossed over $5 billion worldwide, amassing 43 Academy Awards including five Best Pictures winners since 2009: Slumdog Millionaire, 12 Years a Slave, Birdman, The Shape of Water, and Nomadland; 58 BAFTA awards, and 34 Golden Globe Awards!
Creative Advertising Team is much more than making movie trailers and posters! As an intern on our team, you will experience the full cycle of film advertising from developing marketing strategy (that includes creative development) to budgeting, music, legal clearances, finishing and in-theater placements). If selected for this role, you will report to the VP of Creative Advertising.
What You Will Do
Undergraduate students in their senior year or recently graduated within the past six months pursuing a bachelor's degree in advertising, public relations, communications, marketing, or related field.
Eligibility Requirements & Program Information
Candidates for this opportunity MUST meet all of the below requirements:
Searchlight Pictures is a filmmaker-oriented company that focuses on distinctive films helmed by world-class auteurs and exciting newcomers. Founded in 1994, the company’s titles have grossed over $5 billion worldwide, amassing 43 Academy Awards including five Best Pictures winners since 2009: Slumdog Millionaire, 12 Years a Slave, Birdman, The Shape of Water, and Nomadland; 58 BAFTA awards, and 34 Golden Globe Awards!
Creative Advertising Team is much more than making movie trailers and posters! As an intern on our team, you will experience the full cycle of film advertising from developing marketing strategy (that includes creative development) to budgeting, music, legal clearances, finishing and in-theater placements). If selected for this role, you will report to the VP of Creative Advertising.
What You Will Do
- Support the team with logistics, scheduling, and production related activations
- Assist with maintaining department charts, documents, and files
- Prep materials and participate in weekly meetings
- Track entertainment industry advertising and brand marketing trends
- A curious, creative, meticulous film lover
- Passionate about learning all aspects of the creative advertising process
- Proficient with Mac and Microsoft Office – Word, Outlook and Excel
- Understanding various AV formats / aspect ratios for TV and digital platforms
- Outstanding communications skills both written and verbal
- Open to taking creative direction and making changes in a timely fashion
- Expertise with AVID, FINAL CUT, Adobe Creative Suite, After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere.
Undergraduate students in their senior year or recently graduated within the past six months pursuing a bachelor's degree in advertising, public relations, communications, marketing, or related field.
Eligibility Requirements & Program Information
Candidates for this opportunity MUST meet all of the below requirements:
- Be at least 18 years of age
- Possess unrestricted work authorization
- Have not completed one year of continual employment on a Disney internship or Disney College Program
- The approximate dates of this internship are August 2024 through December 2024
- Able to be fully available for the duration of the internship, 40 hours each week
- Able to provide own housing for the duration internship program in the Burbank, CA area
- Able to provide/have reliable transportation to/from work
Salary : $22
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